The Novels

6 Metro 2039 pages in The Novels.

• Dmitry GlukhovskyDmitry Glukhovsky is the Moscow-born author of the Metro novels Metro 2033, Metro 2034 and Metro 2035, who worked on every Metro game's story and helped write Metro 2039 from exile. A Moscow court sentenced him in absentia to eight years in prison on Aug 7, 2023 for posts criticizing Russia's war in Ukraine.
• Metro 2033 (Novel)Metro 2033 is Dmitry Glukhovsky's first novel, published free online in 2002 and in print in Russia in 2005, in which Artyom of VDNKh station crosses the Moscow Metro to Polis to warn of a new threat. Gollancz published it in English on Mar 18, 2010, and it is the book the 2010 Metro 2033 game adapts.
• Metro 2033 UniverseThe Metro 2033 Universe is the shared-world book series Dmitry Glukhovsky opened to other writers after Metro 2034, which had about 35 Russian-language novels by May 2013 set across the post-war world. His own three novels, Metro 2033, Metro 2034 and Metro 2035, are its core, read in that order.
• Metro 2034 (Novel)Metro 2034 is Dmitry Glukhovsky's 2009 Metro novel, set a year after Metro 2033, in which Hunter appears at the cut-off Sevastopol station and travels with the old storyteller Homer and 17-year-old Sasha. It is not a game: Metro: Last Light tells a different story, and Gollancz published it in English on Nov 13, 2014.
• Metro 2035 (Novel)Metro 2035 is Dmitry Glukhovsky's 2015 novel that ends the Metro trilogy, in which Artyom keeps climbing to the surface to search the airwaves for other survivors. It continues the story of Metro: Last Light, and Metro Exodus (2019) follows on from it.
• Metro Film AdaptationNo Metro 2033 film has been made: MGM's American version ended in 2018, a Russian film from Gazprom-Media's studios was paused in April 2022, and on May 15, 2026 Dmitry Glukhovsky said a new screen adaptation is in discussion. Metro 2039 has no film or series tie-in.

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